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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 106, 28 February 1891, Page 2

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t , Lonion. February 27. : Mr Fitzgerald, the Australian lubou delegate, ha?, an nrlicle in the Nineteenth Century, traversing the nvsb of Mi \ Champion's article. He declares tha [ the recent >trike was justifiable, anc t was carried out in a peacable way. j Mr W. H. Smith replying to a ques lioa hy .Vfr Cobb, M.P. - for Ku«by, &ak r the Government Had no knowledge q / any dissatisfaction having been exp'ressec with any of the' judges of rl>e Queen': Bench. Mr Cobb must give thu uameo judge complained of. Ihe Antwerp wool sales have beer fixed for March 10th to 13ch ; 9500 bales • have be<n catalogued, 500' of which ar< > Australian. ' The wool sales closed firmly compare': ■ with the December sales. Better grades - of merinos and fine cross breds were < • per cent lower. > The Rojal Sovereign, a new batili ■ ship of 14U00 tons, and the Arthur havi ! i>een launclied by the Queen at Ports - mouth. Mrs Maybrick's frieads are hopeful o ( offt-cting Her release. , WssHisarotf, February.26. The Pennsj Ivanian miners who wen rescued this week, after nineteen days entombment, were found in a small hole five feet long,, three feet high,-. and the same width. They had managed to sus tain life on scraps of bread, bark, and paper. Beceived February 26, 10.20 a.m. London, February 27. It is expected that Russia will shortly withdraw a million and a half of gold from the Bank of England. • , The Times states that the Joint Stock Banks are in favor of publishing- more frequent 5 reports of their total balances, and will keep larger reserves if the -Bank of England agrees not to lend money. Twenty-three members of the Radical :party are anxious -that Mr John Burns should be appointed a member of! the Labor Commission* -^ : ; :; : ' : '„;